Synology WordPress PHP Configuration

I was trying to move a website from one Synology device to another last weekend and found that no matter what I did, I couldn’t get the WordPress package to use a different PHP version (v7.2) or modify the built in PHP config (v5.6).

It didn’t respond to changes made to the Web Station PHP default setup and config changes within that. I spent ages downloading PHP editing plugins to edit pithing WordPress- that didn’t work either.

Anyway the thing that finally did it is this-

Install the default package from Synology.Then go to your WordPress dir and find the .htaccess file then open it with a text editor.